Graduate: High and Popular Culture in China; Aestheticism and Modernism in East Asia; Encountering Modernity: Film and Literature from Taiwan; Critical Scholarship on Modern Chinese Literature and Culture; Development of the Literary Field in Modern Chinese Societies

Courses

ANS 385 • Crtcl Paradigms Mod Chi Lit

31750 • Fall 2016
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM CMA 3.108

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

CHI 350 • Dream Of The Red Chamber

31205 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BUR 128

The class will read Hong Lou Meng, or Dream of the Red Chamber, written by Cao Xueqin and Gao E in the mid-eighteenth century. It is widely considered to be the best novel written in pre-modern China. The students can read the novel either in Chinese or in the English translation (The Story of the Stone, trans. by David Hawkes and John Minford).

The class time will be divided between close reading and translation of selected passages from the Chinese original of the novel and discussion and analysis of the work's literary features. To enroll in this class, the student should have completed three years of Chinese classes at the college level, or their equivalents. Native speakers of Chinese are also eligible to enroll. Knowledge in Classical Chinese is not required.

ANS 390 • East Asia: Conceptual Frame

31000 • Fall 2015
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM CMA 3.108

Study of various Asian studies-related topics that do not focus on any single geographic region. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

ANS 385 • Mod Inst Lit In China & Taiwan

31140 • Spring 2015
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM CMA 3.108

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

CHI 341 • Classical Chinese Poetry

31385 • Spring 2015
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM BUR 128

?The class will read classical Chinese shi poems selected from the Book of Poetry, the “Nineteen Old Poems” of the Han Dynasty, and Tang poetry in both the “ancient-style” and the regulated, “recent-style.” If time allows, we will also read some ci poems from the Song Dynasty. Class time will be devoted to translating selected poems into English, analyzing their linguistic and aesthetic features, and discussing their cultural and historical significance.

Students who acquired Chinese as a second language should have completed at least three years of college-level Chinese in an American university (or the equivalents) before enrolling in this class. Native speakers of modern Chinese vernacular or a specific dialect, such as Cantonese, with an intermediate or advanced level of reading proficiency may enroll without the CHI 320L pre-requisite. Some knowledge of Classical Chinese would be helpful, but not required.

In addition to two interpretive papers, there will be occasional quizzes on assigned background reading and poetry memorization. Attendance and class participation are both important.

Grading:

Class preparation; participation in discussion 40 %

Papers 45% (mid-term, 20%; final, 25%)

Quizzes 15%

Textbooks:

Jeannette Faurot, Drinking with the Moon: A Guide to Classical Chinese Poetry

Burton Watson, Chinese Lyricism: Shih Poetry from the Second to the Twelfth Century

Course packet

Reading materials:

Book of Poetry (Shijing)

The Songs of the South (Chuci)

Rhyme-prose or rhapsody (fu) from the Han Dynasty

Music Bureau ballads (Yuefu)

“The Nineteen Old Poems”

Poetry of the Six Dynasties

“Recent-style” poetry from the Tang Dynasty: ?five- and seven-character cut-off verse (jueju) and

five- and seven-character regulated verse (lushi)

“Ancient-style” poetry from the Tang Dynasty

Lyrics (ci) from the Song Dynasty

CHI 340 • Prose Writings By Lu Xun

32245 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM BUR 128

The class will read selected prose writings by Lu Xun (1881-1936), who is widely recognized as the most important modern Chinese writer, and whose trenchant cultural criticism have exerted profound influence over generations of Chinese intellectuals. Class time will be divided between close reading and analysis of the Chinese texts and discussion of Lu Xun’s ideas, writing style, and critical views of Chinese history and society.

This course is part of the CHI 340 series on Advanced Chinese Language and Literature that are designed to enhance the students’ knowledge of Chinese literature, culture, and history through reading selected texts in the Chinese original. To enroll in this class, a student should have completed three years of college-level Chinese language courses at an American institution, or their equivalents. Heritage students with an equivalent knowledge in the Chinese language and a serious interest in learning about the subject may also be eligible to enroll (please email the instructor for details).

Class preparation and participation in class discussion are extremely important. Three equally weighted tests will be given. The texts will include 1) translation from Chinese into English and 2) essay questions on the contents of Lu Xun’s writings, to be answered in Chinese. In addition, each student will be asked to do one oral report during the semester. Attendance is extremely important; more than three absences will significantly lower your final grade.

Pre-requisite: CHI 320L in residence or instructor’s consent.

ANS 385 • Lit Fields: Mod China/Taiwan

32265 • Spring 2014
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM CMA 3.108

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

CHI 340 • Classical Chinese Poetry

32135 • Spring 2013
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM BUR 128

The class will read traditional style Chinese poetry from the Pre-Qin, Han, the Six Dynasties, and the Tang periods, as well as some poems of the ci genre from the Song Dynasty. To enroll in this class, the students should have completed three years of college-level Chinese language courses at an American institution, or the equivalents. Some knowledge about the grammatical features of classical Chinese is preferred but not required. Class time will be divided between translating the poems into English and analyzing their aesthetic features. In addition to two papers (one mid-term and one final), there will be quizzes on reading assignments and poetry memorization.

Class preparation is extremely important. More than three absences will significantly lower your final grade.

Grading

Class preparation 40 %

Papers 45% (20% for mid-term; 25% for final)

Quizzes and memorization 15%

Textbooks

Jeannette Faurot, Drinking with the Moon: A Guide to Classical Chinese Poetry

ANS 385 • Lit/Cul Schs: Mod China/Taiwan

This survey course introduces critical scholarships on modern and contemporary literature and culture from China and Taiwan. The goal is to familiarize doctoral students in the ACL (Asian Cultures and Languages) program with the history of our field, as part of their preparation for the Comprehensive Exam. We will adopt a chronological approach and examine representative scholarly writings in the field since the mid-20th century. Special attention will be paid to critical methodologies and underlying theoretical assumptions. Among other things, we will try to contemplate such thorny issues as how recent geopolitical changes, technological advances, and paradigmatic shifts in the humanities have significantly affected the academic practices and disciplinary identities in our field. One such impact is precisely the blurring of conventional disciplinary boundaries. As a consequence, besides literature, our readings will include such diverse cultural genres as film, popular music, urban space, media sphere, etc..

Textbook:

Course packet and electronic attachments to Blackboard

Grading:

Term paper 50%

Class participation 30%

Reports 20%

Selected chapters from the following books:

Hsia, C. T. A History of Modern Chinese Fiction. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1961.

CHI 340 • Modern Chinese Literature

32040 • Fall 2012
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM BUR 128

This is a fourth-year level Chinese language class. To enroll in this class, students should have an equivalent of three years of college-level Chinese language education at an American institution. If you are not sure whether you are at the right level for this class, please contact the Instructor by e-mail.

The class will read prose works selected from the Republican Period of modern Chinese history (1919-1949). Readings will include stories written by such important authors as Lu Xun, Shen Congwen, Mao Dun, and Zhang Ailing. Class time will be divided between translation and linguistic analysis of pre-assigned parts of the texts, and discussion of these texts as cultural and literary products within the particular socio-historical contexts. While English translation of the stories will be included in the course packet to facilitate literary discussion, the students are responsible for looking up in dictionary every word of the assigned passages and know their exact meaning and correct pronunciation before coming to each class.

Class performance counts 45% toward the final grade. Three equally weighted tests, consisting of both the language and the literature components, will be given. Each student will be asked to do one oral report during the semester. More than three absences in the entire semester will significantly affect the final grade.

Pre-requisite: CHI 320L in residence or instructor’s consent.

Grading policies:

Grades will be based on:

(a) Class preparation and participation (45%)

(b) Three equally weighted tests (45%)

(c) One oral report (10%)

Plus/minus grades will be assigned for the final grade. Absences exceeding the allowed quota may result in automatic dropping of the final grade by one or more levels.

ANS 390 • Approaches To E Asian Comp Lit

Description: In this class we will explore a new terrain of literary and cultural studies within the “global/local” framework. We will look into the viability and potential contribution of an “East Asian comparative literature.” Our focus will be placed primarily on the modern period. While many dominant literary forms in modern East Asia have been imported from the West in the last century, along with other modern institutions, this line of inquiry acquires new significance today, as accelerated globalization has created a booming East Asian cultural market and increased intra-Asia cultural flows. Our approach will be both historical and theoretical. We will read selected literary works from different modern East Asian countries and examine their relations with nation-building, colonialism, imperialism, war, revolution, modernization, globalization, and digital revolution. We will also study theoretical writings and critical paradigms in search for useful frameworks that would facilitate meaningful comparisons of different national traditions of literature in modern East Asia. Needless, an important component of the course will be on the circulation of such aesthetic trends as realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism in East Asia and their relationships with western sources of inspiration. The class will read the literary texts either in the original language that individual groups of students are familiar with or in the English translation. Readings in literary theories will be in English.

The class will read modern and modernist literary works from China, Taiwan, Japan, Hong Kong and Korea. It will also study theories on comparative literature and try to construct theoretical frameworks that address special features of Western-influenced literary writings in modern East Asia.

CHI 340 • Chinese Fiction From Taiwan

31925 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM UTC 4.120

This is a fourth-year level Chinese language class. The class will read works of fiction produced in contemporary Taiwan (1949-present) in the Chinese original. Readings will include the mainstream literature, stories written by writers of the Modernist and Nativist schools, and urban fiction since the late twentieth century. The course is designed to meet the goals of both advanced language learning and literary appreciation. In addition to translating selected parts of the texts into English, the class will analyze the literary techniques and examine the social, cultural, and political implications of the literary works.

There will be three equally weighted tests and one oral report. Class preparation and regular attendance are extremely important. More than three absences in the entire semester would significantly lower the final grade.

Grading:

45 % Class preparation; participation in discussion

45 % Tests (15% each)

10 % Oral report

Textbook:

Course packet

ANS 385 • Mod Inst Lit In China & Taiwan

This class will begin by introducing the basics of sociologically oriented theories of literature, in particulartheories of the field of cultural production and studies of literature as a modern social institution. This will befollowed by two types of readings: first, primary literary texts from China and Taiwan since the early 20thcentury;second, non-literary writings that shed lights on the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds ofthese works. Through carefully examining the processes and mechanisms of admission and rejection of theseworks by the official canons, and by situating them within the cultural fields of different types of modern andcontemporary Chinese societies, we hope to achieve a better understanding of the complex and convolutedtrajectories along which “literature” as a modern institution has been entrenched. Ultimately, we hope toreconceptualize the history of modern Chinese literature by taking serious account of the abrupt, and oftenviolent, changes of its institutional environments--changes driven by war, revolution, colonization, and majorshifts in the social, political, and economic systems.

TEXTS:

Course packet

GRADING:

Term paper 60%Class participation 25%Reports 15%

CHI 340 • Contemporary Chinese Lit

31160 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM CAL 323

This is a fourth-year level Chinese language class. The class will read fiction works from contemporaryChina in the original language. Readings will include fiction works by writers of the “root-seeking” andavant-garde schools of the post-Mao era (the late 1970s to late 1980s) and the more popular prosewritings produced in China's rapidly commercializing cultural environment since the 1990s. The course isdesigned to meet the goals of both advanced language learning and literary appreciation. Historical andsocio-political backgrounds will be introduced and serve as basis for class discussions. There will bethree equally weighted tests and one oral report. Class preparation and regular attendance areextremely important. More than three absences would significantly lower one's final grade.

I. Course Description

The class will read selected prose writings by Lu Xun (1881-1936), who is considered by many to be the most important modern Chinese writer, and whose trenchant cultural criticism exerted influence over several generations of Chinese intellectuals. Class time will be divided between close reading and analysis of the Chinese texts and discussion of Lu Xun’s ideas and writing styles. In addition, a few representative English-language background readings and critical studies of Lu Xun will be assigned.

This course is part of the CHI 340 series on Advanced Chinese Language and Literature that are designed to enhance the students’ knowledge of Chinese literature, culture, and history through an in-depth examination of the primary texts. To enroll in this class, a student should have completed three years of college-level Chinese language courses at an American institution, or their equivalents. Heritage students with an equivalent knowledge in the Chinese language and a serious interest in learning about the subject may also be eligible to enroll (please email the instructor for details).

Class preparation and participation in discussion are extremely important. Three equally weighted tests will be given. The texts will include 1) translation from Chinese into English and 2) essay questions on the content of Lu Xun’s writings. In addition, each student will be asked to do one oral report during the semester. Attendance is extremely important; more than three absences will significantly lower your final grade.

Pre-requisite: CHI 320L in residence or instructor’s consent.

II. Structure, Format, and Procedures

Two sets of texts will be put on E-reserve: the Chinese texts of Lu Xun’s prose works, and the English translation of them. Before we start working on each tale or essay, please read the entire work in English. We will conduct a brief discussion of the content of the work in Chinese.

Specific passages from the Chinese texts will be assigned for close linguistic analysis and oral translation in class. The page and line numbers will be posted on the Blackboard a few days in advance. You are expected to look up every single word that you do not already know and get their correct pronunciations before coming to class. Be prepared to read aloud the sentences and translate them into English in a somewhat fluent fashion.

You may consult the English version of the work while preparing the assigned passages at home. However, you must try to understand each word and its usages, as well as the grammatical pattern of the sentences, and come up with a translation that is closer to the Chinese original in a linguistic sense. It is unacceptable if you simply read off from the English translation given in the course packet when called upon to translate in class.

Three class periods will be devoted to oral reports (please see the Schedule for the exact dates). Each presenter will prepare a polished written draft of the report and make enough copies for everyone in class.

Depending on the size of the class, the presentation should run between 7 and 10 minutes. Please do not read from your notes. Try to speak naturally about the subject. Everyone in the audience must prepare two “intelligent” questions about the work, and be prepared to ask them in Chinese in the discussion session following the reports.

There will be three equally weighted tests. Each test will include at least two parts: translation and essay questions. Essay questions have to be answered in Chinese. The answer can be just a short paragraph, consisting of a few sentences. You may write in either the traditional or the simplified form. A good way of preparing for the essay questions is to get into the habit of jotting down your thoughts on the works in Chinese throughout the semester. You may also consult any background readings you can find, but must write up the draft in your own language.

Since this is the most advanced Chinese class offered in our program, we tend to have students with very different backgrounds. If you feel that your proficiency is not as good as some of your classmates, do not be overly concerned. Progress you make during the semester will be taken into serious consideration in grading. What I care most is how much you learn from this class, so you will be essentially competing with yourself.

III. Grading Policies

Grades will be based on:

a). Class preparation (35%)

b). Participation in class discussion (10%)

c). Three equally weighted tests (45%)

d). One oral report (10%)

Plus/minus grades will be assigned for the final grade. Absences exceeding the allowed quota may result in automatic dropping of the final grade by one or more levels.

IV. Course Materials

Selections of both primary texts and background readings will be placed on e-reserve.

Any student with a documented disability who requires academic accommodations should contact Services for Students with Disabilities at 471-6259 (voice) or 1-866-329-3986 (Video Phone) as soon as possible to request an official letter outlining authorized accommodations.

ANS 390 • Aesthetic Modernism In E Asia

31420 • Fall 2008
Meets M 5:00PM-8:00PM MEZ 1.104

Study of various Asian studies-related topics that do not focus on any single geographic region. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

ANS 385 • Crit Scholrshp Mod Chinese Lit

31730 • Fall 2007
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM PAR 8A

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

ANS 385 • Dev Lit Field Mod Chinese Soc

31335 • Fall 2006
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM NOA 1.110

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

ANS 385 • Mod & Postmod Chinese Lit Cul

29310 • Fall 2005
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM BUR 232

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

ANS 385 • High & Pop Cul In Modern China

29075 • Fall 2004
Meets M 4:00PM-7:00PM PAR 8A

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

ANS 385 • Modern Chinese Literature

27690 • Fall 2003
Meets M 5:00PM-8:00PM PAR 8C

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

ANS 385 • Dev Lit Field Mod Chinese Soc

27450 • Fall 2002
Meets F 3:00PM-6:00PM BUR 128

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

ANS 385 • Mod & Postmod Chinese Lit Cul

27125 • Spring 2002
Meets W 4:00PM-7:00PM PAR 8A

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.

ANS 385 • Institutn Of Lit: Modern China

27465 • Spring 2001
Meets W 4:00PM-7:00PM UTC 3.120

Study of various aspects and periods of Chinese language and literature. Specific offerings are listed in the Course Schedule. Prerequisite: Graduate standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic and are given in the Course Schedule.